The last time the Knicks went French in the draft, it was a disaster, but times have changed since 1999.

According to an NBA source, Knicks general manager Steve Mills jetted to France to catch 18-year-old point guard Frank Ntilikina play Tuesday night for Strasbourg in a French League match against Nanterre.

The 6-foot-5 Ntikilina is considered the top international prospect in the draft, and if the Knicks stay with the seventh pick, he would be heavily considered.

Ntilikina is all potential: a reserve playing 15 minutes per game, shooting 57 percent and 44.2 percent from 3-point range and averaging 5.2 points. Strasbourg lost Tuesday, 74-65, to fall to 20-10.

When Ntilikina’s season finishes in late May after the playoffs, he will head to the United States. But he will miss next week’s NBA Draft Combine in Chicago.

In 2015, Mills traveled to Spain without team president Phil Jackson to watch Kristaps Porzingis play for Sevilla and stumbled upon his teammate, center Willy Hernangomez. Porzingis and Hernangomez are slated as the Knicks front-court tandem for the next several years.

In that fateful 1999 draft, the Knicks selected French center Frederic Weis in the first round. He never played in an NBA game. In 2014, with the 57th pick of the second round, Jackson selected Frenchman Louis Labeyrie, who has yet to come over to the U.S.